Who is Lauren Boebert, Donald Trump-supported Congress rep? The Colorado far-right Republican owned a gun-themed restaurant, heckled Joe Biden, backed QAnon – and is already a grandma at 37
- Boebert’s gun-themed Shooter’s Grill in Rifle, Colorado, stopped operating in 2022 – but recently played a role in identifying her teenage son Tyler in property theft incidents
- She was caught vaping at the Beetlejuice musical, heckled Joe Biden, and called Ilhan Omar a ‘full-time propagandist for Hamas’ in 2021 – the latter remarks she later apologised for
Colorado representative Lauren Boebert is no stranger to controversy. The Republican politician was elected to Congress in 2020, and made headlines for her strong conservative views on abortion and guns, proposing a bill in 2023 that “repeals every gun control provision” and blaming falling birth rates on abortion. Her gun-themed restaurant, Shooter’s Grill, in Rifle, Colorado, operated from 2013 to 2022.
Boebert’s political future also hangs in the balance after Democrat Adam Frisch, who she narrowly beat in 2022, said he would challenge her again for her seat to represent Colorado’s Third Congressional District. Boebert responded by announcing that, this year, she would run for a different Colorado Congressional seat, looking to replace Republican Ken Buck in the Fourth Congressional District.
From family drama and a son facing felony charges to her vaping scandal and Islamophobic remarks, here is what you need to know about Boebert.
Lauren Boebert’s family troubles
